Good Books thread

[Tunabros]

Originally Posted by charmcitysking [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut (and pretty much anything by Vonnegut).

The Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt (yes, I know the movie sucked. The book rocks)

heh I love all Vonnegut books

slaughterhouse 5 got me thinking though

[magnetaress]

Frank Herbert and his sons, Dune and children of Dune etc... probably don't need to read the Bible if you read them.

[kjs86z]

Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy

[imperiouskitten]

Originally Posted by kjs86z [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy

great book

[Cyrillious]

I'd recommend "Kings of the Wyld" by Nicholas Eames. Good old fantasy romp centered around a bunch of ageing retired adventurers getting back into the swing of things...

Kinda like Project 1999....[You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Jibartik]

In Uncommon friends, henry firestone walks up to this 22 year old working on the the light fixtures during the 1910 recession

"hey are those your men putting in the light fixtures on the street?"

"Yep, is there a problem?"

"Yeah, where are you getting the money to pay them?"

"Well, we're trading favors, I promised the people I sold these houses that there would be working streetlights"

These people were just better people than we are.

These two men are known today as the problem with america.

[Tunabros]

Originally Posted by Jibartik [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

In Uncommon friends, henry firestone walks up to this 22 year old working on the the light fixtures during the 1910 recession

"hey are those your men putting in the light fixtures on the street?"

"Yep, is there a problem?"

"Yeah, where are you getting the money to pay them?"

"Well, we're trading favors, I promised the people I sold these houses that there would be working streetlights"

These people were just better people than we are.

These two men are known today as the problem with america.

haha seems like a great book

think ill check it out [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Jibartik]

Originally Posted by Tunabros [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

haha seems like a great book

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Its incredible!

There is an amazing part where he goes with firestone to meet with some other titans as his assistant, and he's not allowed in the room so he waits outside it with the other assistants and stuff. After they leave in the elevator firestone says "we're selling everything, right now, close it all before the morning"

The next day the stock market crashed. Firestone managed to cash out 6 million in liquid cash, that gave them a huge advantage and is what made that company what it is today.

There is no doubt in my mind those titans were part of the few cells of investors at the top that knew the crash happened the day(s) before they announced it. Pretty cool.

The story is full of amazing stuff like that.

[Thulian]

Stephen king IT and Misery

also some john grisham books like the street lawyer

michael chricton has a few great books like airframe and the one with the brain on the cover

[imperiouskitten]

its a good year to read william gibson i reckon